07-13-2010, 03:12 AM
(07-13-2010, 01:38 AM)Confused Wrote: @seejay21 - Great observations. I would be grateful if you can expand on your statement - "For example, when you are feeling very strongly against an STS Negative Catalyst, it is actually the feeling that you have that manifests the roadblock to answering the riddle" - for I believe you have touched something very important there? As you have pointed out about the STO-STS chasm, across many instances, I have personally wondered as to whether I am STS. But words of wisdom and love from a good friend put to rest many self-doubts.
I will expand. My statement really goes right to the core of the riddle. Somehow you're suppose to be able to let go of "It". What is "It"? ugh.. Exactly..Freakn who knows what "it" is? When you find the answer, poof, your done.
Something I know of "It" is that its every bad thing you ever thought of someone, or yourself. It's every shame that anyone (especially you) has ever felt for any missdeed that has been done. You must be able to forgive yourself, TRULY forgive yourself without any hangups, bad feelings, saddness, scars, or revenge. In order to forgive yourself for feeling bad, you must forgive the bringers of the pain that brought you the suffering, AND LOVE THEM. That someone else might even be you too, so you'll have to forgive yourself twice in that circumstance. All the while it is you doing it to yourself anyway. I guess our Logos choose a very complicated way of suffering the lesson of love. Suffering is a very big part of the lesson. In a way, the more you suffer, the more capable you are of love on the other end of it. It reminds me of this thing called the "rubber band analogy" that I once read about. The further back you pull the rubber band, the farther it will go. The same goes with fear(including suffering) and love. With that said, it isn't wise to go look for suffering in order to find love. If you go looking for suffering, you'll find suffering. You must look for love to find love.
The thing that makes the paradox so damn funny when you get on the other side of it, is that it isn't a paradox at all. It is actually the EASIEST question ever devised, not the hardest.